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Laura Kasischke
“When I built my luminous prison around you, you simply lay down at the center of it and died.”
― Laura Kasischke, Space, in Chains
tags: death, defeat, giving-in, giving-up, laura-kasischke, luminous, poetry, prison, space-in-chains
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Laura Kasischke
“And

this letter
I didn't send
how surprising

to find it now.

All this love I must have felt.”
― Laura Kasischke, Space, in Chains
tags: laura-kasischke, letter, lost-love, love, memory, poetry, sad, space-in-chains, the-past, unsent-letter
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Laura Kasischke
“The aunts gathered around the fiery cake chanting, Make a wish! Make a wish!”
― Laura Kasischke, Space, in Chains
tags: birthday, imagery, laura-kasischke, make-a-wish, poetry, space-in-chains
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Laura Kasischke
“And I still walk the sidewalk mumbling

something about how it will all be fine

Fine is its own crazy village on the Rhine
Fine is the name of the cuckoo-clock maker
Fine is the word the cuckoo cries

every hour after hour on the hour—
scrambling out of its dark little hole

like something being chased with a knife by Time”
― Laura Kasischke, Space, in Chains
tags: empty-promises, fine, laura-kasischke, reassurances, space-in-chains, time
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Laura Kasischke
“The heart hacked out of the center of an overgrown hedge with an ax
To live beyond the brain”
― Laura Kasischke, Space, in Chains
tags: brain, heart, laura-kasischke, poetry, space-in-chains
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Laura Kasischke
“There is dancing and laughter in hell, an angel weeping openly on a park bench in heaven. My mother, dead and frantic in an attic. A white shirt on a floor. An old man in a wheelchair, rubbing his eyes. Here it is, here it is! the occupational therapists sing as they rise to the surface of the earth, smiling, bearing their terrible surprise.”
― Laura Kasischke, Space, in Chains
tags: angel, creepy, death, heaven, hell, laura-kasischke, poetry, space-in-chains, surreal
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Laura Kasischke
“I, who am doubt now, with a song.”
― Laura Kasischke, Space, in Chains
tags: doubt, laura-kasischke, poetry, sad, space-in-chains
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Laura Kasischke
“Its sweet bird's nest is full of pain in a distant place”
― Laura Kasischke, Space, in Chains
tags: poetry, sad, space-in-chains
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Laura Kasischke
“There are daisies
In the ruined garden, still blooming strangely”
― Laura Kasischke, Space, in Chains
tags: laura-kasischke, poetry, ruined, space-in-chains
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Laura Kasischke
“The day
en route to darkness. The guillotine
on the way to the neck.”
― Laura Kasischke, Space, in Chains
tags: laura-kasischke, poetry, space-in-chains
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Laura Kasischke
“There, tonight. The eternity of that. Swan logic. Swan history.”
― Laura Kasischke, Space, in Chains
tags: eternity, laura-kasischke, poetry, space-in-chains, swans
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Laura Kasischke
“The urgent warnings:

The dreamy terror of certain summer mornings.”
― Laura Kasischke, Space, in Chains
tags: dreamy, juxtaposition, laura-kasischke, poetry, space-in-chains, summer, terror, warnings
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Laura Kasischke
“Believable, chronological, but so quickly erased that it only serves to prove that the universe is made of curving, warping space.”
― Laura Kasischke, Space, in Chains
tags: laura-kasischke, poetry, space, space-in-chains, universe
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Laura Kasischke
“That to want to succeed is to fail”
― Laura Kasischke, Space, in Chains
tags: contradictory, fail, laura-kasischke, poetry, space-in-chains, succeed
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Laura Kasischke
“as if we

were actual human beings
or completely normal people”
― Laura Kasischke, Space, in Chains
tags: human-beings, laura-kasischke, normal-people, poetry, space-in-chains
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Laura Kasischke
“So we found ourselves in an ancient place, the very
air around us bound by chains.”
― Laura Kasischke, Space, in Chains
tags: ancient, laura-kasischke, poetry, space-in-chains
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Laura Kasischke
“And my wildly troubled love for you, which labored gently in the garden all through June, then tore the flowers up with its fists in July.”
― Laura Kasischke, Space, in Chains
tags: laura-kasischke, love, poetry, space-in-chains, troubled, wild
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Laura Kasischke
“She is ancientness. She has lived forever. It has driven her insane.”
― Laura Kasischke, Space, in Chains
tags: ancient, immortal, insane, laura-kasischke, poetry, space-in-chains
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Laura Kasischke
“Not the bureaucrat's stamp on the folder of our fate. But a knot nonetheless, and not of our making.”
― Laura Kasischke, Space, in Chains
tags: fate, laura-kasischke, poetry, space-in-chains
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Laura Kasischke
“They told us it was a dance, a party, a pageant, so we ran laughing together straight into the disaster.”
― Laura Kasischke, Space, in Chains
tags: disaster, false-pretenses, laura-kasischke, poetry, space-in-chains
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Laura Kasischke
“Fragrant, dreaming, unreal, and having to do, terribly, with love.”
― Laura Kasischke, Space, in Chains
tags: description, laura-kasischke, love, poetry, space-in-chains
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Laura Kasischke
“The self on tiptoes sneaking away from the self.”
― Laura Kasischke, Space, in Chains
tags: laura-kasischke, poetry, self, space-in-chains, the-self
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Laura Kasischke
“We would never be together in this life again.”
― Laura Kasischke, Space, in Chains
tags: death, last-time, laura-kasischke, poetry, space-in-chains
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Laura Kasischke
“A man in the massive shadows
of the columns

of the Museum of Griefs-to-Come.”
― Laura Kasischke, Space, in Chains
tags: future, grief, laura-kasischke, poetry, space-in-chains
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Laura Kasischke
“A man holding a woman made of bad moods in his arms.”
― Laura Kasischke, Space, in Chains
tags: bad-moods, couple, embrace, laura-kasischke, love, mood-disorder, moody, poetry, space-in-chains
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Laura Kasischke
“And this

last second or two of dreaming
in which your face
returns to me completely. Not
even needing to be, being

so alive again to me.”
― Laura Kasischke, Space, in Chains
tags: dreams, laura-kasischke, memory, poetry, sad, space-in-chains
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Laura Kasischke
“Why not the Victorians and their sentimental grief-wreaths woven from a loved one's hair?”
― Laura Kasischke, Space, in Chains
tags: grief, laura-kasischke, mourning, mourning-jewelry, poetry, sentimental, space-in-chains, victorian, victorians
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Laura Kasischke
“My memory of your casual smile

This memory, like
a child's bit of sweet embroidery smuggled
out of an asylum”
― Laura Kasischke, Space, in Chains
tags: laura-kasischke, memory, poetry, sad, smile, space-in-chains
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Laura Kasischke
“Even my identity has been kept hidden from me. It is a child's ghost buried in mud. It is an old woman waving at me from a passing train.”
― Laura Kasischke, Space, in Chains
tags: eerie, ghost, identity, in-passing, laura-kasischke, poetry, space-in-chains
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Laura Kasischke
“My eyes closed, hands open, Take it, take it. Then, every day wasted chasing it.”
― Laura Kasischke, Space, in Chains
tags: chasing, laura-kasischke, out-of-reach, poetry, sad, space-in-chains
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